23rd ISODARCO Winter Course on:
"THE ROAD TO NUCLEAR ZERO AND ARMS CONTROL"

ANDALO (TRENTO) - ITALY
10-17 January 2010


Director of the School: Carlo Schaerf (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy)
 Directors of the Course: Catherine M. Kelleher (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA)
Jeffrey Lewis (New America Foundation, USA)
Judith Reppy (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)


Andalo 2010 Principal Lecturers Programme List of Participants Contributed Papers

PROGRAMME



Sunday pm, 10 January 2010 - Arrive Hotel Gruppa Brenta, Andalo

Monday, 11 January 2010

Monday am
Chair: Judith Reppy
Secretary: Spartaco Amato
Introduction to ISODARCO (Carlo Schaerf)
Opening address: The Road to Zero: Arms Control and Beyond (Matthew Evangelista)
Monday pm: 1
Chair: Carl Robichaudi
Secretary: Ece Aksop
General and Complete Disarmament: An Historical Perspective (Randy Rydell)
Monday pm: 2
Chair: Venance Journe'
Secretary: Emily Atkin
Disarmament 2010: Prospects and Problems (Stephen Schwartz)


Tuesday 12 January 2010
Tuesday am
Chair: Arend Meerburg
Secretary: Stefano Batani
Update on START Negotiations (Alexei Arbatov)
Tuesday: 15:00-16:00
Special Tutorial: Nuclear Physics and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (Arend Meerburg/ Mirco Elena)
Tuesday pm: 1
Chair: Jeffrey Lewis
Secretary: Eleanor Cooper
Lessons from the CWC and BTWC (Jean Pascal Zanders )
Tuesday pm: 2
Chair: Jonathan Tirone
Secretary: Charlotte Spenser- Smithi
Panel: How to Strengthen the NPT (Nadia Arbatova, James Acton, Lisa Tabassi)
Tuesday evening
Party


Wednesday 13 January 2010
Wednesday am
Chair: Randy Rydell
Secretary: Michele Gaietta
IAEA and the Road to Zero (Tariq Rauf)
Wednesday pm: 1
Chair: Francesco Calogero
Secretary: Matthew Harries
Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (Arend Meerburg)
Wednesday pm: 2
Chair: James Acton
Secretary: Tessie Humble
Consequences of Conventional Superiority (Dennis Gormley)
Wednesday evening
Open for participant-organized meetings


Thursday 14 January 2010
Thursday am
Chair: Jeff Lewis
Secretary: Matthew Wilcox
Weapons in Space (Barath Gopalaswamy)
Thursday pm: 1
Chair: Alexey Arbatov
Secretary: Angel Kulakov
Stability at Low Numbers (James Acton)
Thursday pm: 2
Chair: Jeffrey Lee
Secretary: Joseph Liddle
Dissenting Views: Should NATO Keep Nuclear Weapons? (Lukasz Kulesa; Marco De Andreis)
Thursday evening
Open for participant-organized meetings


Friday 15 January 2010
Friday am
Chair: Stephen Schwartz
Secretary: Benjamin Loehrke
North Korea as a Hard Case: Does the Road to Zero Run Through Pyongyang? (Jeff Lewis)
Friday pm: 1
Chair: Catherine Kelleher Secretary: Anastasia Medvedeva, Evgeny Kalashnikov
A Chinese Perspective on the Road to Nuclear Zero (Sun Xiangli)

Friday pm: 2
Chair: Lisa Tabassi
Secretary: Robert Moore
Prospects for the CTBT (Andreas Persbo)

Friday Evening
Chair: Jean Pascal Zanders
Secretary: Kyle Deacon
Panel: The Future of European Integration, NATO and Nuclear Disarmament Giorgio La Malfa, Catherine Kelleher, Nadezhda Arbatova


Saturday 16 January 2010 (9:00-12 noon)
Chair: Matthew Evangelista
Secretary: Alex Rothman
Panel: Thinking Outside the Box: New Ideas in Arms Control (Carl Robichaud, Bruce Larkin, Jean-Pascal Zanders, Stephen Schwartz)
Wrap-up: (Catherine Kelleher, Judith Reppy, Jeff Lewis, Carlo Schaerf)
Secretary: Brian Sims